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unˈglue, v.
[un-2 3 and 7.]
1. trans. To free from the binding or adhesive effect of glue; to detach or make loose in this way.
1548Elyot, Reglutino,..to vnglewe. 1598Florio, Sgommare, to vngum, to vnplaister, to vnglue. 1686W. Aglionby Painting Illustr. i. 29 Being Vexed at the Suns ungluing some Pictures of his. 1703R. Neve City & C. Purchaser 277 To prevent..Brick-walls from Ungluing the Joynts of the Pannels. 1718Ozell tr. Tournefort's Voy. I. 130 Their Strings or Filaments separate..in parcels, as if they had been glued together at first, and now were unglued. 1859Morley Mem. Bartholomew Fair i. 12 There was a young man..whose head stuck to his left hand. He was unglued at St. Bartholomew's establishment. 1872T. Hardy Under Greenw. Tree i. v, That there instrument [a fiddle] will be unglued and spoilt in ten minutes.
b. transf. To open (the eyes) after sleep.
1606Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes Wks. (Grosart) II. 31 Another..arriu'de at one of the Gates, before any Porters eyes were vnglewd. 1682N. O. Boileau's Lutrin iv. 207 But yet the Noise that had unglew'd their eyes Could not perswade the Sluggish Chanons rise. 1728Swift Jrnl. of Mod. Lady 42 She stretches, gapes, unglues her eyes, And asks if it be time to rise.
c. fig. To detach, separate, dissolve.
1619Hieron Wks. I. 641 Happy were it for vs if the meditation of this point..were able to vnglue and vntwist our affections, which are so neerely tyed vnto it. 1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. iv. ii. (1654) 307 Heresie and Infidelitie, which are enough to unglew all naturall and civill relations betwixt father and son. 1675Hobbes Odyssey (1677) 130 Your death.., for which Age shall prepare you, and your soul unglew Insensibly. 1831Syd. Smith in Lady Holland Mem. (1855) II. 314 Where is it to end? Are all political agglutinations to be unglued? 1897Hall Caine Christian iv. iii, Unless we unglue ourselves from the vanities which imperil our existence.
2. intr. To lose cohesion; to become detached.
1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. II. 112 Otherwise they are apt to unglue, that is, to separate cleverly from the part where they are Graffed, in great Storms of Wind. 1703R. Neve City & C. Purchaser 29 When ever the Joints shall happen to unglue.
Hence unˈgluing vbl. n.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Desengrudamiento, vngluing. 1623Cockeram i, Reglutination, an vngluing. 1703R. Neve City & C. Purchaser 277 Yet neither of these ways will prevent their ungluing in some Houses. |